A Letter to John Wilkes, Esq; Sheriff of London and Middlesex: In Which the Extortion and Oppression of Sheriffs Officers, With Many Other Alarming Abuses, Are Exemplified and Detected; and a Remedy ProposedHolloway, Robert, active 1771-1808
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A Letter to John Wilkes, Esq; Sheriff of London and Middlesex: In Which the Extortion and Oppression of Sheriffs Officers, With Many Other Alarming Abuses, Are Exemplified and Detected; and a Remedy Proposed
Holloway, Robert, active 1771-1808
Crime; Extortion; Freedom; Sheriffs
filthy life, as a mark of his gratitude he will remember them in his
death; so that when the last trumpet sounds to judgment, like QUEVEDO’S
lawyer, he will DEMUR, under pretence that the proceedings were wrong
from his creation, he having a soul not made for a human body.
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FINIS.
FOOTNOTES.
{7} Wretches that swear to affidavits upon all occasions, without
knowing the contents, or the person they are exhibited against.
{31} Sheriffs officers, MERELY from their being SUCH, are excepted in
the formation of all neighbourly communities.
{39} Aristotle and Elian relate, that a dog loses the faculty of barking
when he opens; that he imitates the speech of a human being for the
purpose of gaining admittance into their houses to devour them.
{40} The lady who occasionally officiates as wife, bawd, priestess, or
any thing most convenient, often serenades him with a rehearsal of his
elegy, insisting on’t he must be hanged.
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